Taboo (ENGLISH)

Taboo (Max Richter). Dark. Extremely dark but exciting. Taboo is developed in the pre-Victorian London of the year 1814, a series masterfully set, and with a main character, James Delaney, as dark as the music that represents him. Visually, the initial sequence of the series is one of the best that has been seen, and the general setting of the era is simply exceptional.

Openings and The Inexorable Advance of Mr. Delaney show the dark themes of Max Richter to conjugate between them the coldness that reflects Delaney, besides being the general tone of the period without an excessive use of electricity and night lighting. The grayish tone of the series, seasoned with the poverty of the people and the dirt of the streets, obscure the panorama, and the music of Richter emphasizes these elements to the maximum. A Lamenting Song presents on piano the most moving theme of the soundtrack, simple and very effective, while the strength of the bass strings, cellos and basses, resonate constantly, and are interwoven with the soft choruses of Song Of The Dead and Song Of The Beyond to establish the link with the dead that Delaney seems to have brought from his lost years in Africa.

After being left for dead shipwrecked, James Delaney appears in London with the truth of being the heir of the possession of the Nootka Sound, a region of the American West key to the war that Great Britain and the United States maintain. Delaney is in a position of strength against the interests of the English crown, the Americans and the all-powerful East India Company.

Although the thematic of Delaney is quite repetitive, it cannot be otherwise against the unchanging character of the protagonist, which also results in a short duration of the album. The only downside of the same one is the non-use of the excellent aesthetics of the series to have achieved a more impressive cover.